Title : 
Soliton mode-locking in optical microresonators
         
        
            Author : 
Herr, T. ; Brasch, V. ; Jost, J.D. ; Wang, C.Y. ; Kondratiev, N.M. ; Gorodetsky, M.L. ; Kippenberg, T.J.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Here we demonstrate passive mode-locking of a microresonators comb via soliton formation without a saturable absorber.
         
        
            Keywords : 
high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; microcavities; optical solitons; femto-second pulse generation; optical microresonators comb; passive mode-locking; soliton formation; Frequency conversion; Nonlinear optics; Optical pumping; Optical resonators; Optical solitons; Ultrafast optics;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/IQEC), 2013 Conference on and International Quantum Electronics Conference
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Munich
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4799-0593-5
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6801769